Besides the obviously I like how he's left Cowan out. If there was a time to drop Cowan it definitely isn't after he's scored a Century against the number 1 Test team and was probably our 3rd best batsmen of the series.

With Shane Watson still to return to a full bowling workload after his comeback from injury, Wright said an all-pace attack featuring Siddle, Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson - rather than one of the latter two - was ''a real option for them to think about''. ''I wouldn't play him [Lyon], but that's me. I'm always going to go the pace against the spin because I just believe that Bellerive hasn't spun for 40 years.''

If Watson isn't completely fit to bowl then four seamers becomes a real option at lots of grounds, Hobart included, but the squad they picked should rule it out because they only picked three serious seam options plus Johnson.

Rejecting 'analysis by checklist' and 'skill absolutism' since Dec '09

PEWS are you betting on SL to take this series just like you had bet on England to take the India-England series?

you must have made some good money if you had bet on England at 19 to 1

And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW

Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta

PEWS are you betting on SL to take this series just like you had bet on England to take the India-England series?

you must have made some good money if you had bet on England at 19 to 1

Nah Australia should win this; Sri Lanka don't have the bowlers to win in Australia unless Australia's batsmen are actually even ****ter than I currently realise.

England weren't paying quite that much to win the series when I bet on them ftr (I bet on them before the first Test at, IIRC, 7-1) but they were paying about that much to win the second Test which I bet on and of course already won. I think it was only 15-1 rather than 18-1, but yeah. Shafted off a huge win for a third Test Compton ton by the umpire too.

Nah Australia should win this; Sri Lanka don't have the bowlers to win in Australia unless Australia's batsmen are actually even ****ter than I currently realise.

England weren't paying quite that much to win the series when I bet on them ftr (I bet on them before the first Test at, IIRC, 7-1) but they were paying about that much to win the second Test which I bet on and of course already won. I think it was only 15-1 rather than 18-1, but yeah. Shafted off a huge win for a third Test Compton ton by the umpire too.

haha....damn man.....maybe I should bet a bit after consulting you.

I would have been pretty big on betting had I not been raised on a diet of how it is bad for you and society etc etc